On 03/30/2007 02:25 AM, Francesco wrote: > > I'd like to know the reason for which > OpenOffice suite's programs are very very slow to open > respect to Microsoft Office suite's ones. > > For example, I tried Ms Office 2003 : > all of suite's programs are immediately opened > on my computer(Intel P4 3,2Ghz, 1Gb of RAM, > HD Maxtor SATA 120GB, MainBoard Asus P4C800 Deluxe), > just 1 or 2 seconds , > while for an OpenOffice program i must wait for 7-10 seconds!! > > Why ??
Like a fine wine, sometimes you just have to wait for it to age awhile; or like wise old men/women, sometimes they take longer getting started in the morning :-) I think that you'll notice that after you've opened OOo, close, and reopen within the times set in Tools|Options|OpenOffice.org|Memory - Remove from memory after x, that OOo opens pretty fast. So in your case where you have more memory than you could possibly ever use for standard applications; just set the memory option to as long as you want. For instance, set it to 10 hours, start OOo in the morning, close and open it as much as you want during your working day and it will reopen in a matter of seconds. The highest that you can set it is for 23 hours 59 minutes. > > Note: the slowness is obvious etheri in Windows (XP for example) > or in Linux. Starting OOo 2.2 on a 700MHZ/256MB system with a slow laptop hard drive takes me about 14 seconds. If I close and restart within the time frame of the memory settings from above it takes 6 seconds to open back up. As others have mentioned, OOo has to check a lot more things than MS Office does due to the fact that it *is* a multi-platform office suite. If MS Office were a multi-platform office suite, I suspect that it would take just as long, or longer to start. So, in the end enjoy the few additional seconds that it takes OOo to start up, use the time to count the extra money you've saved, and just be happy that you can actually run it on Linux (or Windows, or Mac, or Solaris, etc) as you've indicated above. Or better yet; use the few additional seconds each time OOo opens to write a note of thanks to all the fine folks that have contributed their time, expertise, programing experience, marketing, documentation, wizards, local language translations, etc, and thought in providing such an outstanding office suite. One that you, and your fellow university students, professors, friends, neighbors, relatives, government, etc, can download and run *for free*. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
